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Sweetened Whipped Cream
Have you tried and tried to replicate fresh sweetened whipped cream but can’t do it? Yeah, I did that for a long time, too. When I worked at Kneaders in college, I even offered to make the whipped...
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Hot Fudge Sauce {and Fondue!}
Remember back when when I posted the Honey Citrus Vinaigrette recipe and talked about how sometimes you can just look at the ingredient list for a recipe and instantly know in the pit of your soul...
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Strawberry Sauce
Okay, do you ever find yourself in Costco [I can only dream] or Sam’s Club around this time of year and see those GIANT flats of strawberries for, like, $3? And you think to yourself, “Self, that is...
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Buttermilk Caramel Syrup
You’re probably gagging just a little as you read this. Hear me out. I had this syrup at a bed and breakfast once and promptly came home to recreate it. This is pure evil and so incredibly delicious...
View ArticleHow to Make Spider Web Cookies
After posting the Halloween Party Food, which included pictures of sugar cookie pops with spider web designs on them, I had a lot of people ask how I made the icing design. I had even more people...
View ArticleSwiss Meringue Buttercream
Hey, guess what? We’re having a birthday! We can’t believe we’ve been at this for two whole years now. On the one hand, it’s gone by in a flash and on the other, it seems like it’s been a part of...
View ArticleSuper Easy Chocolate Ganache
In case you’ve never had ganache before, it’s a silky-smooth, shiny, not-too-sweet layer of chocolate that can be found on cakes, cookies, cupcakes, marshmallows, graham crackers, strawberries,...
View ArticleChocolate Frosting
One of the most popular recipes on Our Best Bites is this flour frosting. Its velvety smooth texture combined with the not-so-sugary bite is perhaps the perfect thing on top of almost any cake or...
View ArticlePeppermint Fudge Cupcake Jars {& striped frosting tutorial}
AKA: “Why yes, you may have that raise” cupcake jars, or “Oh my gosh I think I love you” cupcake jars, or “Yes of course we should agree to a ceasefire, in fact let’s do dinner tonight” cupcake jars....
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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Frosting
I’m pretty sure something biological happened to me about the same time I became a mother. At least that’s when I remember it happening. That was the point when I realized I couldn’t live without...
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Tutorial: How to Swirl Colored Icing for Cupcakes
I don’t know if the universe has it out for me or what, but I swear to you all, the second I start making a conscious effort to eat healthy, I’m suddenly inspired to make all sorts of naughty treats....
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Kitchen Tip: No Mess Piping Bags!
Happy Monday y’all! We spent the weekend in Texas and I have been saying y’all way too much since then 🙂 I’m barely recovering from jet-lag, a 4 am (Boise-time) flight, and coming home to a couple...
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How To: Frost Cupcakes
It should be no surprise that around here we LOVE cupcakes. We love creating them, decorating them, frosting them, and certainly eating them! We get so many questions about cupcakes (especially...
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How To: Homemade Ice Cream Cake Crunchies & Homemade Magic Shell Topping
It is totally possible that this is the most random Our Best Bites post ever. We often get requests for how to make those crunchy things that are inside Carvel and Dairy Queen and other ice cream...
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Easy Blueberry Sauce & Syrup
First off, we need to announce the winner of our food storage giveaway! The winner is #1025, Heather H. Congrats, Heather! Please email us ASAP to claim your prize! Secondly, we’re going to pick a...
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Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread {Homemade Nutella!}
When it comes to holiday goodie-giving, you’ve got the go-to regulars, like fudge and sugar cookies, and you’ve got the last-minute, like store-bought chocolate bars, but sometimes you need something...
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Butterbeer {& Salted Butterscotch Sauce!}
As you guys may have noticed from some of my posts, I have a tendency to kind of maybe blur the lines between fiction and reality. I love to read (although, thanks to this guy, if I try to read...
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Sugared Cranberries
If you’ve never made (or eaten) sugared cranberries before, you’re in for a treat. Literally. These little beauties require only two ingredients and the result is absolutely stunning little morsels...
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How to make Candied Lemon Slices
Good Monday Morning! We’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to promote our new book, and we can’t wait to tell you all about it! It was SO fun meeting so many of you! I’ll share some pictures...
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How to Make Stabilized Whipped Cream
Have you ever wondered how professional bakeries get that amazing, perfectly shaped whipped cream on their fancy desserts? The kind where you think it’s frosting, but then you take one bite into it...
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Cake Batter Frosting
One of my favorite things about the blogging world is seeing our blog friends have all sorts of crazy success. After writing three books (if you haven’t checked them out and you’re dying to, you can...
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Brown Butter Frosting
Guys…I have something so amazingly delicious coming on Wednesday. And this is just the beginning. We’ve had brown butter frosting recipes floating around for a couple of years tacked onto other...
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Brown Sugar Caramel Frosting
I don’t know what it is about the change in seasons, but I always get a little hankering to clean and organize. I’ve been tackling projects like kids’ closets, bathroom drawers, and those cupboards I...
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Easy Salted Caramel Sauce
Normally the day after Valentine’s I wouldn’t post a dessert because people are usually sweeted out, but I keep needing to reference this recipe and then realize it’s not on the blog yet! So I’m...
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Coconut-Lime Buttercream Frosting
Spring is in the air. Birds are chirping. Bees are buzzing. Everyone in my house feels like death from allergies. But really, it’s so beautiful outside that it’s kind of hard to care. Warmer weather...
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The Best Basic Chocolate Frosting
We’ve got lots of frosting recipes on this site (most are attached to cakes or cupcakes), but the other day someone asked me for a go-to chocolate frosting and I realized we didn’t have this one in...
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Perfect Cupcake Frosting and Filling
This is known as Ermine Frosting, or sometimes referred to as boiled milk frosting, because it begins with a cooked roux of flour and milk. That might sound incredibly strange for a frosting recipe,...
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Tutorial: Cookie Decorating with Glace Icing
I consider myself to be a pretty good artist. My education and former profession is in the design field and I’m pretty good at craft stuff. I also think I’m a decent cook, so I figured with those...
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Perfect Cream Cheese Frosting
Hi, my name is Kate (“Hi, Kate!”) and I’m addicted to cream cheese frosting. Addicted. Like…we should not be left alone together because I will inevitably do something that will make me feel shameful...
View ArticleMarshmallow Buttercream
Marshmallow Fluff Buttercream is a frosting recipe everyone should have in their collection. One little tub is the secret to irresistibly fluffy, silky smooth frosting. The only other ingredients you...
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Peppermint Candy Cane Whipped Cream
This Peppermint Candy Cane whipped cream gets both its beautiful blush color and sweet flavor from crushed candy canes! It’s perfect for holiday desserts like Peppermint Chocolate Bundt Cake, or...
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The Best Buttercream Frosting
Classic buttercream frosting is soft, fluffy, and silky smooth. It’s the perfect topping for desserts like sugar cookies, cakes, cupcakes and more. Make sure to scroll past the below recipe card for...
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Air Fryer Crumble Topping
One of my clearest memories of childhood summers is fruit and cream. Whether it was the fresh blackberries we’d pick near my home in the Pacific Northwest, or the sweet peaches at Grandma’s house in...
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